Thursday, April 2, 2015

Discrimination And Abomination

As children, we were all taught, if our parents cared about
us, to discern/discriminate between what is good and what is evil (right and
wrong).Discernment is the pure
definition of discrimination and discrimination is the result of discernment.The Bible is the Word of God, and therefore
the authority of what is good, and what is evil.The Bible tells us to "test every
Spirit".We, people of faith, need
to know what comes from the infallible mind of God, and what comes from the fallible
mind of man.

The Bible lists many forms of sin and abomination.We are told not to commit sins and even more
not to commit abominations. We are told to stand fast in our faith. We are told
to separate ourselves from sin and not follow in the way of sinners.We are instructed to love the sinner while we
hate the sin: for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God, and
salvation through Christ is available to anyone who repents of their sin and
submits to the Lord.[1]It only makes sense that we should not participate
in anything that further enhances, or enables, the practice of sin.As Peter and other apostles told those in
authority, we should obey God rather than man[2].

Apparently there are sins that are
more egregious to God than others.We
know that sin is anything that comes between God and us.Throughout the Bible we see references to
things that will carry a more severe punishment than others.The Bible tells us about sin, iniquity and
abomination. Perhaps this is a reflection on the difference in committing sin,
and willfully continuing to repeat, practice and retain sin in our lives,
either knowingly or out of ignorance. We also know that Christ died for our
sins: almost all of them, for everyone, for all time.There is, however, one sin that the Bible
states can never be forgiven.That sin
is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit ( saying that the works of the Holy Spirit
are from Satan and saying that the works of Satan are from the Holy Spirit).

"Webster’s dictionary defines the word 'abomination'
as a 'loathsome or disgusting act.' This serves as an adequate biblical
definition as well, for when the bible mentions something as an 'abomination'
it means 'an act which is loathsome or disgusting in the eyes of God.' "[3]

Abominations, What The Lord Hates

An abomination seems to carry the
description of being of a greater severity, in Gods mind, than the other 'run
of the mill' sins.It would be
worthwhile, therefore, to establish what God, and the Bible, have referred to
as abominations.The following is a list
of those abominations.

3.Hands that shed innocent blood (such as
abortion) Thou shall not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to
the Lord, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons
and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.To cause their sons and their daughters to
pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it
into my mind, that they should do this abomination (today its abortion)

4.Feet that are swift in running to mischief

5.A false witness

6.A heart that desires wicked imaginations

7.He that sows discord among brethren

8.Those of a froward heart (Perverse; deceitful; false)

9.
Lying lips (one who conceals hatred has lying lips)

10.
The thoughts of the wicked

11. The sacrifice of the wicked (presenting the face of religion,
without being religious)

12. The way of the wicked

13. It is an abomination to
kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

14. He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemneth
the just, even they both abomination to the Lord.

15. Divers weights, a false
balance and divers measures, they are alike abomination to the Lord.

16. Thou shall not lie with
mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination, Leviticus 18:22 19.

17. The woman shall not wear
that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

18. Cursed be the man that
maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of
the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place

19. They that are of a
froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way
are his delight

20. He that turns away his
ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Proverbs 28:9

21. Idol worship, Idols made
with hands

22. I have seen thy
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom

23. You are they which
justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

24. Using the hair of a whore
or the price of a dog for a vow

25.Remarrying a woman who you divorced, who
married another man and left him

Deuteronomy 18:10-15

There shall not be found
among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or
a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the
Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out
from before thee.

So that the Lord
could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the
abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and
an astonishment, and a curse

And mine eye
shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to
thy ways and thy abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
that I am the Lord that smites.

Isaiah 66:3

He that kills an ox is as if
he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he
that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense,
as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul
delights in their abominations.

Proverbs 19:18

Chasten thy son
while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Luke 16:15

And he said unto them, Ye are
they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that
which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

And there shall
in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of
life.

I would like to add to the list of
abominations, a couple of things that are not listed as such in the Bible, but
I personally feel that are true abominations. All of these were developed after
the New Testament was established.

1. Replacement
theology

2. It's up to man
to make the world perfect (dominion or amillennial theology)

3. Telling people
that there is more than one way to Heaven

For these things
to be true, Jesus, God the Father, the Holy Spirit and all the writers of the
New Testament would have to be liars.

As we can see, there are consequences to our actions and
also our inactions. We will all be held to account for our actions and
inactions, sooner or later, before the judgment seat of God. God does not wink
at our indiscretions or transgressions.God
is the same yesterday, today and forever. God will not be mocked.We cannot serve sin and God at the same time.

The heart of the matter is that we believers cannot tell
others, especially non believers, what they may or may not do.However, for the secular world to be able to
have the right to force the believer to act and be involved in any behavior
that is contrary to our faith, in God's Word, is to deny us the right of the
practice of our religious freedoms, as delineated inFirst Amendment of the Constitution of the
United States of America.

Regardless of the sin involved, (LGBT lifestyle,
fornication, adultery, murder, idolatry, lust, theft, etc.) the nonbeliever is
entitled to sin as they see fit.However, the nonbeliever is not entitled to demand that the believer be
involved or participate in the practice or enabling of their sin. Tolerance is supposed
to be a two way street, or it leads to tyranny.

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